Rudi Dicks

Rudi Dicks

Department:

Cyber Forensic Security Expert / Director

Experience:

15 Years

Email:

rudi@thecyberacademy.co.za

Phone:

083 324 8898

About me

Rudi has more than 15 years of experience in network design and server administration with a focus on information security. Rudi has conducted penetration tests for multiple top 100 companies and multi-national organisations. He is well versed in best practices and compliance including King III; POPI; OWASP; ISO27001; PCI; NIST and US Laws (SOX; HIPAA; GLBA).

Over and above the technical acumen that Rudi possesses, Rudi has a strong understanding of how information security relates to business risk and is able to easily communicate in both extremely technical terms, as well as in more simplistic terms, providing very meaningful insight to executive and senior management. He manages his intrusive operations with a very sensitive approach, ensuring at all times that those requesting his services are always aware and secure about his activities. Rudi is passionate about his work and more so about educating organisations about the biggest and most often overlooked point of unauthorised entry namely, social engineering.

Skills

Penetration testing (team leader)

Vulnerability scanning

Project management

Hacking methodologies and tools

Hardware/Software Firewalls (All major brands)

Network and Host based IDS/IPS solutions

Router/Switch Configuration

Active Directory

Exchange

Network scanning

Chronology

“Almost all cyber-attacks contain an element of social engineering and the manipulation of users. Educating those users is of critical importance in
protecting any infrastructure.”